North Korea threatens "stronger" measures than nuclear test

It did not spell out the actions it would take. The North is not capable of staging a military strike on the United States, although South
Korea is in range of its artillery and missiles and it can hit Japan with its missiles.

"The DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, or North Korea) has drawn a final conclusion that it will have to take a measure stronger than
a nuclear test to cope with the hostile forces nuclear war moves that have become ever more undisguised," the North's KCNA state news agency
said.

what could they mean by 'stronger' measure than a nuclear test? All-out war and/or an invasion of South Korea? The rhetoric becomes harsher every day,
which is worrisome.
I just don't get what they think they could gain from 'stronger' measures, any thoughts?
The first quote shows us, that the US is increasingly worried as well.. only time will tell.

I can't think of anything that could be classified as "stronger measures" than a nuclear test other than some kind of strike. This along with that
weird video of America burning is starting to worry me.

north korea rules by threat of death, this can not be called a "government"....it is simply an organized gang of thugs. to give it any more credence
than that, is what has kept it in power this long. north korea has been and is the embodiment of george orwells 1984...a preview from the movie 1984,
starring john hurt: www.youtube.com...
i think this should be a mandatory movie seen in every school, and a mandatory book report assignment in every language or history class.

Originally posted by Zerschmetterling
The rhetoric becomes harsher every day, which is worrisome.

Because that's ALL what those backward countries can bring to the table: RHETORIC.
Those people live like 30-50 years in the past. Let them go to war with SK or any other country.
All I can say is "lol". Seriously. Maybe Kung-Fu-Guy or whatever his name is should first start feeding his own people and get his own country into
the same century..then those threats might look less hilarious.

Actually,they aren't all that far removed from the Stone Age as it is.

But seriously I don't believe North Korea could reach American soil with
any kind of strike,but they could make life difficult for some of our Allies,if they were of the mind to. Probably just rhetoric and empty threats
though.

having both been to sth korea and visited the DMZ I have always kept an eye on DPRK

my take so far
1. they are broke and starving
2. the regime is repulsive, google 3 generation punishment.
3. their army is decrepit
4. china will beat south korea to any invasion
5. they pursue racial purity concepts the nazis would envy
6. apart from an initial devastating salvo DPRK are incapable of presenting a threat past twenty minutes
7. a united korea is inevitable

Originally posted by camaro68ss
NK has been all talk for nearly 50 years now. they may have a large standing army, but no means to transport them or sustain a supply line.

But at the same time, they don't need to.

Their biggest plan is to reunite with the South. They haven't shown any interest in invasions, except the South reunification, which they consider a
crime aided by the West, thus the "US is our mortal enemy" kind of rhetoric.

To me, personally, doesn't matter that their people are in starvation or in desperate need of assistance. North Korea can turn out to be a colossal
problem. They are not a guerrilla army, they are a full proportioned military force - even if they lack projection outside of their territory.

If a bunch of extremists can cause chaos in Afghanistan/Iraq and the other revolutions in Africa/ME, can you imagine if someone thinks they can pull
off the same type of thing in North Korea?

A provocative strike - serious enough, like an EMP or nuclear strike (or even attempt to) - would mean a retaliation against them. That would open a
very nasty can of worms for the West to deal with.

Even if the only decision made is to go over there and "finish the job" that was created with the Korean war, that will be a very hard subject to
handle. They have a massive army and a very fanatic and manipulated population.

From this point of rhetoric and situation, things either get easily solved, or we are in for a really bumpy ride. In my opinion, at least.

Activision Games appealed to YouTube apparently because the North Korean Dream Propaganda Video was using footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,
the scene in which the american city blows up.. just for clarification

North Korea has atomic bombs and at best they can generate a nuclear reaction equivalent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As far as the potential of an EMP
they could in theory knock out all power in South Korea, Vietnam
or Japan if the targeted those countires individually.

The Congress of the United States would imediately declarewar and in truth China's economy would suffer teribly just because NK targeted any of these
countries with an EMP detonation. In reality any missle lunched from NK that did not go strait up in relation to lauching a satelite would be
destroyed long before it hit any of these countries.

There is no way they have today the technology to actually be a threat to the United States, they can certainly try to fire a missile at us but that
missile, would be destroyed long before it came anywhere close to Hawaii.

If North Korea began the conflict there is no legitimate reason that China would get involved. There are actually Chinese reports offered by
WikiLeaks, presenting that China feels it would be better off, if NK were conquered by the United States.

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